The New Arab Staff

Farida Dowidar

Farida Dowidar

Farida Dowidar is an Egyptian-British freelance journalist and a student at Sciences Po Paris and the University of California, Berkeley. She writes primarily about geopolitics, culture, and the historical legacies of the contemporary MENA region

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